Stan Collymore tells Richarlison why he must quit Everton to join Antonio Conte's Tottenham

Stan Collymore reckons Tottenham boss Antonio Conte could be the man to turn Richarlison into the player he has long threatened to be — just as he did with Romelu Lukaku.

Striker Lukaku never quite hit the heights people expected him to in the Premier League, doing well with West Brom and Everton but not as well as it was hoped he would with Chelsea and Manchester United either side of his time at The Hawthorns and Goodison Park.

Lukaku blossomed fully during his days working with Conte at Inter Milan, though, and earned himself a big-money move back to Chelsea.

Although that hasn’t worked out either and he is now trying to work his way back to Inter. Conte is no longer there, of course, and is instead at Tottenham, where he wants to link up with Everton star Richarlison. And former Liverpool and Aston Villa striker Collymore, a Mirror Sport columnist, is confident he’s the manager the Brazilian needs at this stage of his career.

Collymore said: “Richarlison is a strange one — he’s confident, he’s cocky but I haven’t seen him dominate a season since he has been in English football. There have been spells where he has made me go, ‘Crikey, this kid has everything: he’s built like a bulldog, he’s a beautiful athlete and he has an undoubtable ability to score goals’. But I’m yet to see him take a campaign between the teeth in the way he should, and that’s why Tottenham’s belief in him is interesting.

“Perhaps Conte is the man to shackle his excesses and turn him into a proper player. By that, I mean I just want to see him being a functional forward who scores goals with good movement. I don’t need the multi-coloured hair, the trolling of Liverpool fans, the sniping at Jamie Carragher on Twitter, because that’s more